Switched On

{{Short description|1992 compilation album by Stereolab}}

{{Other uses|Switched-On (disambiguation)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox album

| name = Switched On

| type = compilation

| artist = Stereolab

| cover = Switchedon.png

| alt =

| released = October 1992

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio =

| genre = {{flatlist|

• Post-rock
• shoegaze
• noise pop

}}

| length = 43:55

| label = Too Pure (UK)
Slumberland (US)

| producer =

| prev_title = Low Fi

| prev_year = 1992

| next_title = Space Age Bachelor Pad Music

| next_year = 1993

| misc ={{Extra chronology

| artist = Stereolab Switched On

| type = compilation

| prev_title =

| prev_year =

| title = Switched On

| year = 1992

| next_title = Refried Ectoplasm

| next_year = 1995

}}}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|3.5|5}}{{Cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=r181766|pure_url=yes}}|title="Switched On" review|accessdate=2011-07-01|publisher=All Media Guide, LLC|author=Phares, Heather|work=Reviews}}

| rev2 = Pitchfork

| rev2Score = 7.7/10{{cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/stereolab-switched-on-refried-ectoplasm-aluminum-tunes/|title=Stereolab: Switched On|work=Pitchfork|date=6 October 2018|accessdate=18 July 2019|last=Sherburne |first=Philip}}

}}

Switched On (also known as Switched On Stereolab or Switched On Volume 1) is a compilation of Stereolab's first three releases, and was originally released in 1992. The album's name is in tribute to Switched-On Bach (1968) and other similar titles from the late 1960s to 1970s that feature Moog synthesizers as the primary instrument.{{cite book |title=Strange Sounds: Music, Technology & Culture |first=Timothy Dean |last=Taylor |year=2001 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-93683-5 |page=[https://archive.org/details/strangesoundsmus00tayl/page/278 278] |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/strangesoundsmus00tayl/page/278 }} Switched On was later licensed to Slumberland Records for a US release, and Rough Trade Germany, for that country, both in 1992.

Compiled of tracks from Super 45 and Super-Electric EPs plus the Stunning Debut Album 7" single, the album forms the first part of a pentalogy of Stereolab rarities collections along with Refried Ectoplasm (1995), Aluminum Tunes (1998), Electrically Possessed (2021), and Pulse of the Early Brain (2022).